Apache tika 2.x.x wants old version of PDFBox 2.x, bump to tika 3.0.0-BETA that want PDFBox 3.x. With this we can use Tika as PDF reader.

Comment From: tzolov

Thanks @Grogdunn I will merge the version update, but for my understanding did you see an actual failures while using the previous version?

Comment From: Grogdunn

Yes when importing both pdf reader and Tika reader there are "no method found exception" during Tika PDF parsing, because of the incompatibility of two pdfbox version.